Surfaces and higher rank symmetric spaces play an important role in Werner Ballmann's career.
In this talk we will bring surfaces and higher rank symmetric spaces together in a different spirit.
We introduce (particularly nice) actions of surface groups on higher rank symmetric spaces and
discuss their geometric and dynamical properties.
Links:
[1] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/taxonomy/term/39
[2] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/3444
[3] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/158
[4] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/3050
[5] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/9281